{"id":447983,"date":"2026-01-30T19:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447983\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:27:08","slug":"sources-nuggets-nikola-jokic-knee-to-return-vs-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447983\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Nuggets&#8217; Nikola Jokic (knee) to return vs. Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c4aceb39-0eb9-a30b-1120-9cb5b12b677a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> star <a data-player-guid=\"22f57511-06ae-1587-f01b-33965365ce0d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3112335\/nikola-jokic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> plans to return to action on Friday night against the Los Angeles Clippers at home after being sidelined since Dec. 29 with a bone bruise in his hyperextended left knee, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic is also set to play in Sunday&#8217;s showdown against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bd458c44-2d33-47eb-cebc-35d3d4ac595c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> in Denver and be eligible for season awards such as MVP and All-NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-11 star center got hurt in the first half of Denver&#8217;s loss to the Miami Heat back in December. Prior to that, he was ranked fifth in the NBA in scoring at 29.6 points per game. He also has 16 triple-doubles this season, which leads the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic is also averaging career highs in APG (11.0) and three-point percentage (43%)<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets went 10-6 in Jokic&#8217;s absence over the last month-plus. Those 16 games are the most he&#8217;s ever missed in any season of his career<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic plans to return to action on Friday night against the Los Angeles Clippers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-447983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}